Advances in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care: Prospects and Ethical Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in neonatal and paediatric intensive care include new and increasingly sophisticated therapeutic strategies: new drugs or new combinations of existing drugs, as well as new methods of ventilatory and cardio-circulatory support. All of this leads to the long survival of extremely premature infants and children with chronic and incurable conditions (congenital or acquired during perinatal period), who often survive with the help of home life support systems such as mechanical ventilation and artificial nutrition—so-called medically complex children. All of this represents a great opportunity, but also poses ethical challenges regarding children’s best interests, end-of-life care, and the possibility of providing effective palliative care.

This Special Issue wants to explore opportunities and challenges related to advanced care in neonatology and paediatrics.

Dr. Nunzia Decembrino
Dr. Chiara Locatelli
Dr. Alberto M. Giannini
Dr. Luca Manfredini
Guest Editors

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